The ONR Diversity Committee is an important tool for ONR in its work to increase diversity, and the current committee is to be commended for its solid recommendations. This committee believes that the ONR Diversity Committee should be strengthened and given a position of greater prominence. Two ways to accomplish this are to add some senior executives to the committee and to have the Chief of Naval Research assume leadership in the position of Chair. This would send an unequivocal message to ONR scientists and engineers that the committee's functions are important to ONR's mission.